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One For The Road · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCFJH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One For The Road on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, silence through bars 53-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 37-43 -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---------|
One For The Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 28, 44, 60, 72 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-61 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-73 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is One For The Road?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is One For The Road hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in One For The Road?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 28, 44, 60, 72 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED